Art of knitting narrowed tubular fabrics



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ART F KNITTING NARROWED TUBULAR FABRICS.

Patented June 24, 1890.

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ART OF KNITTING NARROWED TUBULAR FABRICS.

No. 430,981. Patented June 24,1890.

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CHARLES H. YOUNG, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR OF ThVO-TI'IIRDS TO IVILLIAM ZIOCK, RALPH EMERSON, AND WVILLIAM A. TALCOTT, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, AND A. P. OLZENDAM, OF MAN- CHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

ART OF KNITTING NARROWEID TUBULAR FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,981, dated June 24, 1890. Application filed April 6, 1886. Serial No. 198,004. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. YOUNG, of Manchester, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Knitting Narrowed Tubular Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of my invention so to improve the art of knitting a narrowed or shaped tubular fabric that the same can be produced more expeditiously and cheaply than by the methods now commonly practiced and at the same time result in a seamless-shaped fabric of the kind mentioned, of smooth even texture throughout, and entirely devoid of what are usually termed eyelet-holes at the point or points of narrowing.

To the foregoing ends my invention con sists in the art of knitting a narrowed tubular fabric by pursuing the following-men tioned steps or acts: first, beginning and knitting a tubular web of any desired dimensions and of any suitable length, then narrowing the same by dropping stitches at deslred points and intervals on both sides of a continuous or unbroken Wale or line of stitches, and subsequently catching up the dropped stitches and uniting them together or to the main web or body of the web. In the drawings hereto annexed and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a diagram of a tubular-knit fabric knit in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a View of a piece of fabric on an exaggerated scale, showing loops or stitches forming certain wales as dropped, the knitting of such Wales discontinued, and the tubular web narrowed to that extent. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the dropped loops or stitches caught up and looped or connected with the other loops of thefabric.

In carrying out my invention I begin, for

example, at the point a, Fig. 1, and knit a.

tubular web of regular dimensions suitable for the purpose intended down to a point at which it is desired to vary the dimensions by narrowing, which may in the present instance be supposed to be the line b. Here I commence diminishing the diameter of the Web by throwing out of operation certain needles employed in knitting the tube, dropping the stitches therefrom in successive rounds or at any desired intervals and points until the web has been suniciently narrowed, which may be supposed to be the point 0, when the knitting the tube of regular dimensions is resumed, narrowing again at another point or points or not in the same manner until the end of the tube is reached, when I complete the fabric by catching up the dropped loops and uniting them together or to the body of the web. In pursuing the steps before mentioned the dropping of stitches is effected along both sides of an uninterrupted or unbroken Wale or line of stitches d. The points at which such dropping of stitches may be made, having reference to Fig. 1, is indicated by the figures 1 to 7, inclusive, the conventional lines indicating the Wales or longitudinal lines of stitches.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a dropped loop or stitch (designated by f) on each side of the unbroken Wale or line (I in every alternate course. After the knitting of the fabric has been completed the dropped stitches are caught up and united to other loops or stitches of the fabric.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the dropped loops or stitches f of the fabric shown in Fig. 2 as united togetherthat is, a dropped loop f is drawn through the next adjacent dropped loop, and the latter loop is drawn through the dropped loop next adjacent to it, and so on. By this process a tubular fabric can be rapidly and conveniently shaped or narrowed and the web be made smooth and even in texture and formed without the imperfections usually known as eyelet-holes or ridgy seams.

As a machine equipped with devices adapted to the practice of my method that discovered in an application filed by me of even date herewith maybe referred to, though any other machine or means found suitable for the purpose may be employed-for example, such machine as is shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 311,357, the knitting operations catching up the dated January 27, 1885, may be used. dropped stitches and uniting them to other Having thus described my invention, I loops of the web, as set forth. clai1n- In testimony whereof I have signed my 15 5 An improvement in the art of knitting a name to this specification, in the presence of narrowed tubular fabric, which consists in two subscribing witnesses, this 23d day of beginning the knitting ofthe tubular web March, 1886.

and at the desired point narrowing the same CHAS. H. YOUNG. by dropping stitches at suitable intervals or Witnesses: 10 points on both sides of a continuous or un-' S. N. BELL,

broken line of stitches, and after completing J. F. BRIGGS. 

